When you e-file, you can tell them exactly what day to debit the money from your checking account, so you can't even attribute this to people wanting to earn a little more interest -- the blame falls squarely on laziness and procrastination.
I'll probably get flamed for suggesting it around here, but what the hell.
The single biggest barrier I would have to buying things from you isn't the fact that I'm forced to buy a complete album, or that I don't have a very wide assortment of format options.
What's going to stop me from buying anything from this site is appearance and presentation.
It's just very difficult for me to justify handing over my credit card number to people who spell "hear" as "here" and "sponsor" as "sponser" in the first hundred or so words on the main page.
Maybe the target audience doesn't care about professionalism, it's hard to say.
However, I do consider myself part of the target audience, and it matters to me, so you've lost at least one potential sale right there.
Unfortunately, the fact you quoted from the register is wrong. I guess it's too much trouble to be asked to actually read the report before writing an article, or posting a comment based on the article, but the report itself clearly says.NET Petshop 2.0: 2096 LOC, Middleware J2EE Pet Store 2.0: 14,004 LOC.
So it's faster, and less lines of code.
Love it or hate it, there's no reason to spread disinformation.
Q: Can Linux, FreeBSD or another open source OS run on "Palladium" hardware?
A: Virtually anything that runs on a Windows-based machine today will still run on a "Palladium" machine (there are some esoteric exceptions[1]). If you currently have a machine that runs both Linux and Windows, you would be able to have that same functionality on a "Palladium" machine.
[1] These exceptions include the following:
Some debuggers may need to be updated to work in the "Palladium" environment, but they can still work. Some special performance tools may need to be updated. Software that writes directly to TCPA hardware will need to be updated. Memory scrub routines (at the hardware level) will need attention. Third-party crash dump software may need to be updated. BIOS mode hibernation features will need to be updated to work with "Palladium."
Since so many people seem to be asking, Farscape was scifi's highest, or second highest show depending on who you ask. Unrealized Reality (Season 4, Episode 12) pulled a 1.5, which is pretty unheard of for this network.
Unfortunately, it's also their most expensive show to create, but what the hell else do they have? They killed b5:lotr (And no, not THAT lotr), they killed lexx, Stargate's coming to a conclusion after this season.... They're going to have dead zone and johnathon edwards when at the end of this year.
JMS said scifi wants to get away from "those space shows", when they killed the b5 spinoff. I haven't figure out who's irrational bias this is, they're the scifi channel for christ sake, ut if I ever identify the person responsible, rest assured that I will provide contact info.
This system isn't without flaws though, particularly in an online community such as Slashdot itself.
If for instance, some posted decided post a single link to some obscure worthless website that nobody's ever heard of, let alone linked to in a comment such as this one, it will be ranked accordingly to the total of slashdot's calculated 'popularity' based weight.
Google does not, and probably can not distinguish between actual content on this site and inane comments made by people such as myself.
Is this a large flaw? I really can't say, and I certainly don't have a solution to propose. I still say google is the best thing out there, and beats the hell out of inktomi's paid listings, which power an ever growing number of search engines.
Pleeeeeease tell me english isn't your native language.
Is this really slashdot's fault?
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Is the ftp getting hammered slashdots fault? I mean, people would have found out sooner or later, sure this is a huge forum, but there are other means. Maybe it's about time we looked for a better mirroring system than having it where the public can get it and hope the mirrors mirror it first... if it's not released yet, maybe it shouldn't be anywhere we can get it.
This may not appear immediately relevant, but bear with me.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with ZeoSync's claims, but if you can impose a semblance of order on something that only appears chaotic, you can do some pretty cool stuff.
Take for example this little demo at this website in germany. (I realize what the domain looks like, there's nothing for sale or license, trust me). The actual download link is about halfway down the page.
This isn't "compression" in the conventional sense, but they still manage to contain a demo that contains hundreds of megs of textures and samples, in addition to the engine itself in *64kb*. Now thats a hell of a ratio.
They do this not by storing the raw data, but instead storing the instructions needed to reconstruct the data as it is needed.
Granted, I realize that they only accomplished this with their own data, but I don't think taking this a step further to an arbitrary set of textures and sounds is impossible. Granted, this idea won't work for all types of data, and also can not be considered "lossless", (hell, it's not even strictly compression) but I still think it's incredible that you can get this high quality results out of something this small.
(Disclaimer: The above link is to a demo that requires directx 8.1 and I sincerely doubt will run under wine. It also doesn't work with every video card out there. I've scanned the binary, and it doesn't appear to have any viruses or trojans, but I won't guarantee it. If you can't accept the risk, don't download the binary.)
Who the hell moderated this as redundant? I think it's a perfectly valid comment. In some ways, this form of fascist moderation is even worse than the usual trolls, hot grits, and natalie portman idiots. I hope you get slammed in meta moderation, jackass.
I have a cable and a DSL connection, and I'm currently using just the manner of setup you're talking about. All of my machines have an internal IP address, as do the LAN interfaces of my two gateway NAT devices. Traffic is load balanced across the two gateways, weighted by destination network and protocol. (No sense using my DSL to get news from an outsourced provider when I have one two hops away on my cable that provides much higher throughput).
I have to admit that it's mostly a cheap hack, but honestly I'm pretty happy with it, and the biggest cost was the time it took to educate my sorry ass to the point I could get it to do what I wanted.
Free as in beer is like being given a free beer. Company X is letting you download their product for free (generally for personal use), but you have very limited rights (if any) to what can be done with this product. You can use it. You can't modify it, you can't redistribute it, and if you don't like it, you're out of luck. Free as in speech means you can modify, redistribute, pretty much whatever you want with it, within the constraints of the license. About the only thing you can't do is modify the terms of the license.
Yeah, I agree. Recently a p2 400 of mine died. I wanted to replace it with a 600 or so mhz processor to be my dedicated divx player for my home entertainment center. Looking at the prices, it was pretty ludicrous to buy a 600. I wound up with a 1.3 ghz athlon new board and chip for ~200 dollars. In some cases, a 600 duron was *more*. What would the point be, in my situation, to buy the lesser chip?
RIT Labs has a product (actually 2 now) that sound like they do what you're looking for, although neither is free, but I've been using the bat for around a year now, and I'm really happy with it, builtin OpenPGP. The 'secure' version also does s/mime though I can't personally vouch for it's quality, I've never used it, though from what I understand it encrypts all of your local data, supports OpenPGP, S/MIME with x.509 certs, and a bunch of other good stuff.
Like I said, I only use the normal version, and it's quite well integrated with OpenPGP and quite cheap as well. The other version costs around 140, which most around these parts people will find rather steep I guess./me prepares to get moderated into oblivion for committing the sin of advocating a non open source solution.
So I guess Dvorak shops at thinkgeek?
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This (visually) looks amazingly similar to the Imagination Network
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001081.html has a screenshot comparison I saw earlier this morning.
When you e-file, you can tell them exactly what day to debit the money from your checking account, so you can't even attribute this to people wanting to earn a little more interest -- the blame falls squarely on laziness and procrastination.
Regarding spam zombies, most of them do attempt direct SMTP access instead of sending mail through the ISPs mail server.
The flavor of the month outlook worm is a different story, but not what most of the discussion today has been about.
I'll probably get flamed for suggesting it around here, but what the hell.
The single biggest barrier I would have to buying things from you isn't the fact that I'm forced to buy a complete album, or that I don't have a very wide assortment of format options.
What's going to stop me from buying anything from this site is appearance and presentation.
It's just very difficult for me to justify handing over my credit card number to people who spell "hear" as "here" and "sponsor" as "sponser" in the first hundred or so words on the main page.
Maybe the target audience doesn't care about professionalism, it's hard to say.
However, I do consider myself part of the target audience, and it matters to me, so you've lost at least one potential sale right there.
Flame away!
Ah, but it's very likely that unless the ratings for the next two episodes completely rock that it'll never come out of hiatus.
Unfortunately, the fact you quoted from the register is wrong. I guess it's too much trouble to be asked to actually read the report before writing an article, or posting a comment based on the article, but the report itself clearly says .NET Petshop 2.0: 2096 LOC, Middleware J2EE Pet Store 2.0: 14,004 LOC.
So it's faster, and less lines of code.
Love it or hate it, there's no reason to spread disinformation.
I liked the old nostalgia better.
From the same FAQ you link to:
Q: Can Linux, FreeBSD or another open source OS run on "Palladium" hardware?
A: Virtually anything that runs on a Windows-based machine today will still run on a "Palladium" machine (there are some esoteric exceptions[1]). If you currently have a machine that runs both Linux and Windows, you would be able to have that same functionality on a "Palladium" machine.
[1] These exceptions include the following:
Some debuggers may need to be updated to work in the "Palladium" environment, but they can still work.
Some special performance tools may need to be updated.
Software that writes directly to TCPA hardware will need to be updated.
Memory scrub routines (at the hardware level) will need attention.
Third-party crash dump software may need to be updated.
BIOS mode hibernation features will need to be updated to work with "Palladium."
Since so many people seem to be asking, Farscape was scifi's highest, or second highest show depending on who you ask. Unrealized Reality (Season 4, Episode 12) pulled a 1.5, which is pretty unheard of for this network.
Unfortunately, it's also their most expensive show to create, but what the hell else do they have? They killed b5:lotr (And no, not THAT lotr), they killed lexx, Stargate's coming to a conclusion after this season.... They're going to have dead zone and johnathon edwards when at the end of this year.
JMS said scifi wants to get away from "those space shows", when they killed the b5 spinoff. I haven't figure out who's irrational bias this is, they're the scifi channel for christ sake, ut if I ever identify the person responsible, rest assured that I will provide contact info.
I am apparently unable to form coherent sentences while trying to type around the chili I spilled on my keyboard.
Please disregard the horrible mangling of the English language which took place in the parent comment.
This system isn't without flaws though, particularly in an online community such as Slashdot itself.
If for instance, some posted decided post a single link to some obscure worthless website that nobody's ever heard of, let alone linked to in a comment such as this one, it will be ranked accordingly to the total of slashdot's calculated 'popularity' based weight.
Google does not, and probably can not distinguish between actual content on this site and inane comments made by people such as myself.
Is this a large flaw? I really can't say, and I certainly don't have a solution to propose. I still say google is the best thing out there, and beats the hell out of inktomi's paid listings, which power an ever growing number of search engines.
1000 million? Is he waiting for 1024 million to call it a billion?
Pleeeeeease tell me english isn't your native language.
Is the ftp getting hammered slashdots fault? I mean, people would have found out sooner or later, sure this is a huge forum, but there are other means. Maybe it's about time we looked for a better mirroring system than having it where the public can get it and hope the mirrors mirror it first... if it's not released yet, maybe it shouldn't be anywhere we can get it.
Which is the third lie, that you were sorry, or that you worked for dell?
Or maybe he just meant xvid...
I liked the old nostalgia better.
This may not appear immediately relevant, but bear with me.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with ZeoSync's claims, but if you can impose a semblance of order on something that only appears chaotic, you can do some pretty cool stuff.
Take for example this little demo at this website in germany. (I realize what the domain looks like, there's nothing for sale or license, trust me). The actual download link is about halfway down the page.
This isn't "compression" in the conventional sense, but they still manage to contain a demo that contains hundreds of megs of textures and samples, in addition to the engine itself in *64kb*. Now thats a hell of a ratio.
They do this not by storing the raw data, but instead storing the instructions needed to reconstruct the data as it is needed.
Granted, I realize that they only accomplished this with their own data, but I don't think taking this a step further to an arbitrary set of textures and sounds is impossible. Granted, this idea won't work for all types of data, and also can not be considered "lossless", (hell, it's not even strictly compression) but I still think it's incredible that you can get this high quality results out of something this small.
(Disclaimer: The above link is to a demo that requires directx 8.1 and I sincerely doubt will run under wine. It also doesn't work with every video card out there. I've scanned the binary, and it doesn't appear to have any viruses or trojans, but I won't guarantee it. If you can't accept the risk, don't download the binary.)
Who the hell moderated this as redundant? I think it's a perfectly valid comment. In some ways, this form of fascist moderation is even worse than the usual trolls, hot grits, and natalie portman idiots. I hope you get slammed in meta moderation, jackass.
I have a cable and a DSL connection, and I'm currently using just the manner of setup you're talking about. All of my machines have an internal IP address, as do the LAN interfaces of my two gateway NAT devices. Traffic is load balanced across the two gateways, weighted by destination network and protocol. (No sense using my DSL to get news from an outsourced provider when I have one two hops away on my cable that provides much higher throughput).
I have to admit that it's mostly a cheap hack, but honestly I'm pretty happy with it, and the biggest cost was the time it took to educate my sorry ass to the point I could get it to do what I wanted.
Diablo.
Free as in beer is like being given a free beer. Company X is letting you download their product for free (generally for personal use), but you have very limited rights (if any) to what can be done with this product. You can use it. You can't modify it, you can't redistribute it, and if you don't like it, you're out of luck. Free as in speech means you can modify, redistribute, pretty much whatever you want with it, within the constraints of the license. About the only thing you can't do is modify the terms of the license.
Yeah, I agree. Recently a p2 400 of mine died. I wanted to replace it with a 600 or so mhz processor to be my dedicated divx player for my home entertainment center. Looking at the prices, it was pretty ludicrous to buy a 600. I wound up with a 1.3 ghz athlon new board and chip for ~200 dollars. In some cases, a 600 duron was *more*. What would the point be, in my situation, to buy the lesser chip?
RIT Labs has a product (actually 2 now) that sound like they do what you're looking for, although neither is free, but I've been using the bat for around a year now, and I'm really happy with it, builtin OpenPGP. The 'secure' version also does s/mime though I can't personally vouch for it's quality, I've never used it, though from what I understand it encrypts all of your local data, supports OpenPGP, S/MIME with x.509 certs, and a bunch of other good stuff. Like I said, I only use the normal version, and it's quite well integrated with OpenPGP and quite cheap as well. The other version costs around 140, which most around these parts people will find rather steep I guess. /me prepares to get moderated into oblivion for committing the sin of advocating a non open source solution.
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